In a stunning coincidence, immediately after reading this, I stumbled unto a quote by Tench Coxe in Bureau of Labor Statistics, History of wages in the United States from Colonial times to 1928. Revision of Bulletin No. 499 with supplement, 1929-1933 , page 24. This serendipity while doing genealogy is what gave rise to "Serengenity," the word I use to describe my blog.
But they WERE very serious religious Zealots when they arrived in America in the 1650s, and then became Quakers, so maybe the Jaques family really were Huguenots. Then of course there's the datapoint that the name is pronounced "JAY-qweez" in the American Midwest, that kinda proves it, right? 😉
In a stunning coincidence, immediately after reading this, I stumbled unto a quote by Tench Coxe in Bureau of Labor Statistics, History of wages in the United States from Colonial times to 1928. Revision of Bulletin No. 499 with supplement, 1929-1933 , page 24. This serendipity while doing genealogy is what gave rise to "Serengenity," the word I use to describe my blog.
But they WERE very serious religious Zealots when they arrived in America in the 1650s, and then became Quakers, so maybe the Jaques family really were Huguenots. Then of course there's the datapoint that the name is pronounced "JAY-qweez" in the American Midwest, that kinda proves it, right? 😉